Sneaky sneaky fundies….
Ben Nevers, a Democrat, has proposed SB 561 , a bill that opens the door wide open for teaching creationism in the classroom and destroying the scientific process. Here are the words that will cause the problem.
“Proposed law prohibits the Louisiana Department of Education or any school official from prohibiting, censoring or suppressing writing, document, record, or other content of any material about biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”
So… because of the wording of this bill, materials such as this will be forced into the classroom? It must, because it falls under “any material about biological evolution”. Would a teacher be able to present information that says “if you support human cloning you will burn in hell”?
The right wing kooks have placed dumbing down our society as their agenda. They want to eliminate scientific thought and want to replace it with faith and faith alone. And let me be clear, there is absolutely nothing wrong with faith in general. However, faith has no place in the science classroom.
By proposing this measure, Nevers either proves that…
A) He is one of the right wing kooks
B) He was convinced by the right winged kooks that there is nothing wrong with questioning evolution in a science class (even if the evidence presented against evolution is not based in science, but on faith).
or
C) He has been pressured by the right wing kooks that he will lose support if he doesn’t give them what they want.
Either way, the bill is awful and the Senate should vote it down and not back down to these extremist right wingers.
h/t to Ryan at DailyKingfish (even though he got the bill number wrong).